Disk Imaging for School Computers - Free. Page 1 2 3 4 Disk Imaging for Groups of Computers Using Clonezilla Server (FREE) The problem: Purchases or donations of multiple identical computers / laptops require a standardized setup before deploying them on campus.
Setting up and configuring computers for campus use can take several hours for a single computer. Commercial disk imaging software licensing can be costly. The solution: Set up ONE computer in a standardized configuration and then duplicate it exactly to the other computers using a method known as cloning or disk imaging. The method used here is multicast disk imaging. This is a preferred method of re-imaging many computers simultaneously. Disk Imaging example using 6 clients and a network switch: There are 4 main steps to successfully imaging groups of computers. Install and configure an disk image server.
To do this you will need: An Ubuntu Linux computer with Clonezilla Server installed. A simple 10/100 or 10/100/1000 network switch with 8 ports or more. Step 1. Clonezilla - About. Live CD/USB/PXE/HD. GParted Live is a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution for x86 based computers. It enables you to use all the features of the latest versions of the GParted application. GParted Live can be installed on CD, USB, PXE server, and Hard Disk then run on an x86 machine. Installation Instructions To install GParted Live on CD, download the .iso file and burn it as an image to a CD. For other installations, please refer to the following documents:GParted Live on USBGParted Live on PXE serverGParted Live on Hard DiskAdd packages in GParted LiveCreate your own custom GParted Live from scratch Usage Instructions See the GParted Live Manual for instructions on how to use the Live image.
Accounts in GParted live GParted live is based on Debian live, and the default account is "user", with password "live". Available boot parameters You can find the available boot parameters for GParted live here. Included Packages GParted Live includes additional packages, such as: Graphical Utilities Command Line Utilities. Start – Parted Magic. The Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful software (e.g.
Partimage, TestDisk, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, ddrescue, etc…) and an excellent set of info to benefit the user. Parted Magic is licensed under the GPL , so an extensive collection of file system tools are also included, as Parted Magic supports the following: btrfs, exfat, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, and zfs. Parted Magic requires at least a i686 processor and 312MB of RAM to operate or 175MB in “Live” mode. Features Format internal and external hard drives. Read Me Parted Magic is my full time job. Visit the Donations page to see how much has been raised so far.
Parted Magic 2013_02_28 The Parted Magic project is proud to announce another stable release of the popular partitioning and system rescue environment. Parted Magic now supports booting from EFI BIOS.